The 2013 national champion windsurfer says he was introduced to the sport at Rokeby High School and now a huge part of his life is spent on the water.

"I needed something else other than just going out partying and playing around so I thought 'yep I'll get a windsurfer and get into it' and that was when I started spending a lot of money on it," says Kaleb.

Most of the time Kaleb competes in free race sailing, where the windsurfers are tracked via GPS within a three to four kilometre area for one hour and the competitor with the longest distance is the winner.

"It's a very challenging type of race, it's an endurance orientated thing and you think 'oh an hour out windsurfing, that'd be a breeze'.

"Within about 10 to 15 minutes of starting you're thinking 'oh my god what am I doing this for?' he says.

Even for the national champion the one hour endurance race isn't easy and Kaleb says it's much more than just physical fitness that gets him through.

"Everything starts to ache and hurt and then you start to get past those barriers and you settle down and settle into the conditions.

"It's demanding. You can be conditioned for it though over time and you become very sailing fit so you get used to it but its endurance physically but it is also mental," he explains.

While Kaleb admits his passion is to catch waves and launch into big jumps he also sees the appeal and excitement of travelling at high speed across the ocean surface in the free race events.

"It's really exhilarating and you're very free. You're out there on your own and you just think 'oh this is magical'.

"It's a really good freedom and anyone that's sailed a yacht would know what that's about, you know getting out off shore and enjoying that," he says.